maltaise
\mal.tɛz\
The verdict
“maltaise” is uncommon French (frequency #83,132 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,132
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété d'orange à pépins, sa chair colorée est acidulée, savoureuse et très juteuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maltaise · maltaise · French
maltaise · rank #83,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,132
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mamelouks
Nearest frequency peer: mamelouks (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « maltaise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magnolias
magnolias
16,873 corpus weight
- mahan
mahan
16,872 corpus weight
- maltaise
maltaise
16,869 corpus weight
- mamelouks
mamelouks
16,868 corpus weight
- Manfredi
Manfredi
16,867 corpus weight
- manguier
manguier
16,866 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maltaise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maltaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.tɛz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maltaise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maltaise is uncommon French at frequency #83,132 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mal.tɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for maltaise in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is maltaise, spelled M-A-L-T-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Variété d'orange à pépins, sa chair colorée est acidulée, savoureuse et très juteuse.
- 2Pièce d'or frappée d'une croix de Malte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maltaise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La maltaise est une culture presque ancestrale en Sicile.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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